The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-12-22
LOUISVILLE LINKS.
Made Into a Chain by an Enterprisin
Reporter.

Mr. LOUIS Nleney started Monday
evening for Los Angeles, California.
Mr.. A. McGregor delivered his lect-
ure to a select and attentive audience,
on last Friday evening.
Mr.. Fritz Swope came flying out of
Lamielle's saloon last Wednesday as if
propelled by hurricane.
Mr.. Thurin is opening a branch store
in his room OF the Kaulbauch building,
tel the sale of fancy goods.
Messrs. jim Chollet and John Meriot
had lively set-to last Wednesday.
Meriot's nose had the appearance of a
pealled onion shortly after.
Mr.. William Dettweiler died this
friday morning at o'clock, at his
home in Louisville, after a long illness
of typhoid fever. Aged 28 years.
Sunday night Mr.. Sirhenry discovered
two fellows 1fying to gain an entrance
into Mr.. Wertenberger's clothing store.
They had stolen an AK anu ladder from
Mr. Pence 10 help them in their busl-
ness, but left all behind and run.
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.
Mr.. A. McGregor lectured last Friday
evening at Keim's Hall under the aus
pices of the WOman's Missionary
Society of the Reformed church.
The topic was Scotland and the
Scotch and was given in compliance
with a request OF the Society. The
Hall was well filed and the audience
seemed to take great interest in the
ubject.
The speaker described Scotland
showing it was only about three-fourths
as large as Ohio, and about three
fourthS of that was mountain, and bar
en- mountain at that.
tie spoke of the monopoly in land
that twelve men averaged over 36O,OW
acres each, OF the fine parks and
grounds around castles and mansions
Notwithstanding the comparative
scarcity of arabic land. He referred to
the genius and enterprise of the Scotch
people-of the wonderful mineral de.
yelUpments, manufactures and com.
merce, giving statistics in this connec-
ton. Thus was Scotland prosperous
her people mainly employed, and thus
were the landed lords able to get enor'
nous rents, though now, owing to de-
presSions in prices rents were coming
down.
In touching on presbyterian Scot
land" Mr.. McGregor said Scotland was
probably more identified with hel
church than any's, other Protestant
country. He knewlof no country that
became Protestant so promptly and
Overwhelmingly as Scotland. Many
people imagined that Presbyterianism
In Scotland was gloomy, narrow, bigot
ed and given to persecution, when the
truth was that no human life was sac
rificed in Scotland through the,I ,IRefor
nation. He took pleasure in saying
word in vindication of the RetoImerS
Of that period.
Burnings at the stake there were
cruel and horrid executions there vert
under the two King Charleses and
Jameses in their efforts to re-establisf
EpiscOpacy in Scotland; but the mar
tyrs were PreSbyterians who believed
in spiritual independence and did moi
believe in making Christians by act Of
! a,liament.
State Churchism had been the cause
of divisions among Presbyterians IL
Scotland. Religion by authority, thai
too often carried the sword of persecu
ton for those who refused to conform
had caused great suffering and loss o.
thousands of lives.
The battle for civil and religious lib
erty had been fought, not in the civil
but in the ecclesiastical sphere in Scot
land. The Scotch were tolerant ane
liberal in religion and politics. Theil
doctrine is religious equality of al
EN- and all creeds before the law. Few
people studied the Bible so thoroughly
and understood its precepts so well a;
the Scotch.
Joseph Cook, in "Round the World,
says: II do not regard England as the
most Christian country in Europe.
think Scotland is entitled to that name
but there is one thing that detractS
greatly from her claims-the people
there drink an immense amount Of liz
uor. AT first sight this looks incom
patible with her piety, but Scotland il
simply where New England was il
the days of Lyman Beecher. She il
waking up, though, on the subject Of
temperance. There is not more liquor
drank in Scotland than England"
Mr.. McGregor spoke of visits to mar
tyrs' graves in various burial grounds
and read inscriptions on tombstOnes
One inscription in Hamilton church
yard tells of four mems heads being
there buried, who suffered at Edinburgh
in 1866, and whose bodies were there
buried, while their rights hands wert
cut off and put up at Lanark, as at tha
place and with those hands they haC
signed the covenant.
On the martyrs monument at Ed
inburgh he also read, that from 1861
when the noble Marquis of Argyle Suf
fered. until February 7, 1858, wheI
James Renwick suffered, $4,000 werC
one way or the other murdered o.
destroyed on account of their religion
These horrid results were in cOnse
quence of kingly and aristocratic
authority trying to enforce uniformity
in religion and suppress voluntary eff
fort and free worship. The various Sc
cessiOns from the established Presby
civil control, which the brave people Of
that faith could not cOnscientiouSly
submit to. He was happy to say that
now the three bodies of the faith wert
in fair accord A few years since, pat
ronage in the established church was
done away, so that now each con
gregation has the selection of its owr
minister. This removed great STUN
bling block that was the great cause OF
the split in lS43 One thing should not
be forgotten in this connection; namely
that these divisions indicated freedom
of religious thought and utterance in
Scotland.
Mr.. McGregor spoke in high praise